News release from the Downtown Improvement District:
Fright Night Downtown
(September 30, 2013) – Downtown Fort Wayne’s Fright Night returns for its 6th year on Saturday, October 19th boasting more activities than ever before. This year will feature new events like the Spooktacular Car Show, a Fall Festival at Barr Street Market, a haunted museum and many more!
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You can kick off your day by getting in the zone, the Pumpkin Zone that is! The Botanical Conservatory, will offer activities like pumpkin putt-putt and pumpkin seed tasting beginning at 10am.
It wouldn’t be a Fright Night without zombies. Things will start to get creepy on the Library Plaza when Downtown Improvement District’s Zombie Machine begins cranking out the undead at 2pm culminating with a crawl along Wayne, Calhoun, Columbia and Harrison streets. While you wait to get your zombie on you can give a little blood of your own to the Red Cross Blood Mobile, munch on some food truck faire or practice your best zombie walk.
If you find zombies a little too ghoulish come inside! The Allen County Public library provides some Not So Frightening Fun and Halloween Button Making, while the Community Center keeps the ball rolling with pumpkin bowling, corn hole and other fun games. Our favorite family-friendly evening activities return with live music and a scavenger hunt at Parkview Field, the Ghostly Gala at the Grand Wayne, a bonfire at the Marriot and of course the Braineater’s Ball at Cinema Center!
Feeling a little haunted as the evening rolls in? The Fort Wayne Dance Collective presents its fifth annual Halloween concert, Into the Dark(ness). A dance concert to chill your bones! Get on the move and hunt for the Embassy ghost, take a haunted tour with ARCH or keep your eye out for the headless horseman by lamplight at the Old Fort. The Embassy will be showing 1925 classic, The Phantom of the Opera with Dennis James on the Grande Page Theatre Pipe Organ for their silent film of the evening.
Looking for a little bit more grown up fun? Stop out to do the Time Warp again at the Rocky Horror Picture show at 9:15p. Cinema Center will also be screening the local contemporary horror film Phantom of the Woods and A Better Fort’s Zombie Prom will run until 2am at the Thirsty Camel with some scary good drink specials.
If all that limping, groaning and searching for brains has you worn out you can hop a CTN Spooky Shuttle to get to your destination from various downtown locations running from 2-5pm. Our terrifying trolley service will continue to connect you from 6-11pm
Fright Night is a downtown event with various activities for ALL AGES! Some activities have a small admission price and others are FREE. Pick up a copy of the official Fright Night Event Map at the Embassy Box office or the Allen County Public Library downtown beginning October 7th and get all the gory details right now at www.frightnightdowntown.com.
Listen to MAJIC 95.1 October 1st -19th for all the information about Fright Night 2013 and the Pick Your Brain for the Zombie’s Name Facebook Contest.
This event is brought to you by the organizations making these events possible and is sponsored by the Downtown Improvement District, Catalyst Marketing, Do it Best, The IPFW Communicator, CTN, The Allen County Public Library, TAG Art Company, MAJIC 95.1 and The Gay and Lesbian Gift Fund.
Fright Night Events 2013
- Cinema Center
Braineater’s Ball
Enjoy music and dancing in the Spooky Spectator Lounge with Bravas serving up refreshments while Wallace and Gromit: Curse of the Were-Rabbit plays in the theatre!
6:00-9:00pm, FREE
437 E. Berry St.
260-426-3456
www.cinemacenter.org- Cinema Center
Phantom of the Woods
Screening of the local film Phantom of the Woods, directed by Michael Storch. This film is not for all ages.
9:15pm, $5
437 E. Berry St.
260-426-3456
www.cinemacenter.org- Historic Fort Wayne (The Old Fort)
Old Fort Lantern Tours
Lantern light tours with tales of encounters with the ghosts of The Old Fort. Keep an eye out for the Headless Horseman!
6:00-10:30pm
$2.00 under 12 Free with Adult
1201 Spy Run
260-437-2836
www.oldfortwayne.org- Downtown Improvement District
Zombie Machine & Zombie Walk
Come get your zombie on at the DID Zombie Machine before you parade the streets of downtown! While you wait for the walk to start at 5:30pm you can enjoy spooky tunes, tasty food truck faire and other fun activities on the Library Plaza.
2:00-5:30pm
FREE
900 Library Plaza
260-420-3266 x3040- Allen County Public Library
Not So Frightening Fun
Stop by Children’s Services for some not so frightening fun and craft making!
Ages Preschool-11
2:00-4:00pm
FREE
900 Library Plaza
260-421-1255- Allen County Public Library
Halloween Button Making
Stop by Young Adults’ Services at the Main Library to make the perfect spooky, glamorous, or ghoulish button to complete your Halloween ensemble.
2:00-4:00pm
FREE
900 Library Plaza
260-421-1255- Foellinger-Freimann Botanical Conservatory
Pumpkin Zone
Learn fun facts about pumpkins while you play pumpkin putt-putt and other games, make pumpkin crafts, taste pumpkin seeds, and watch a pumpkin carver.
10:00am-3:00pm
2 years and under are free, $3.00 3-17 years, $5.00 Adult
1100 S. Calhoun Street
260-427-6440
www.botanicalconservatory.org- Foellinger-Freimann Botanical Conservatory
Rocky Horror Picture Show
Let’s do the time warp agaaaaain! Brad and Janet seek shelter on a rainy night from the bizarre Dr. Frank N. Furter.
Doors 8:00pm, Movie 9:15pm,
$1.00 3-17 years, $2.00 Adult, 17 and younger must be accompanied by an adult.
1100 S. Calhoun Street
260-427-6440
www.botanicalconservatory.org- Courtyard by Marriott Downtown Fort Wayne
There will be a bonfire serving Fright Dogs, Blood Soup, cider & hot chocolate. All items $2.00 and proceeds will be donated to Back on My Feet,gyt a charity organization.
6:00-9:00pm
Champions Alley/Courtyard Marriott
260-490-3629- The History Center
Explore the Old Jail in the History Center and see the history of what was once the termed by the Chicago Tribune “the most lawless city in Indiana”.
5:00-9:00pm
$2 per person
302 East Berry
260-426-2882
www.fwhistorycenter.com- Parkview Field & Fort Wayne TinCaps
Scavenger Hunt & Music
Enjoy a scavenger hunt around Parkview Field and spend time with your favorite mascot, Johnny. Stick around and enjoy live music while sipping on ‘Blood Light’ and other concessions for $1 and $2.
5:30-8:00pm
FREE
1301 Ewing Street
260-482-6400
www.parkviewfield.com- Grand Wayne Center/Hilton Hotel
Ghostly Gala
A not-too-scary family-friendly costume dance and parade. DJ La-La keeps the little monsters groovin’, coloring sheets for busy little fingers, and Science Central whips up a batch of Zombie Snot. Concessions available.
6:00-8:00pm
FREE
120 W. Jefferson St.
260-426-4100
www.grandwayne.com- Science Central
Zombie Snot
Kids can make their own disgustingly gross batch of Zombie Snot! This activity is free, while supplies last on the ACPL plaza and at the Grand Wayne Ghostly Gala.
ACPL 2:00-5:30pm
Grand Wayne Center 6:00-8:00pm
FREE
260-424-2400 Ext.417
https://www.sciencecentral.org/- Science Central
Science on a Sphere
Stop in to see the world’s biggest eyeball and take a look at some of the greatest catastrophes to hit our planet.
10:00am-4:00pm
3 & up $8, Over 65 $7, Under 2 Free
1950 North Clinton
260-424-2400 Ext.417
https://www.sciencecentral.org/- Community Center
Halloween Haunt
Bring your little ghosts and goblins to the Community Center for an afternoon of frightful fun including cornhole, pumpkin bowling, face painting and more!
2:00-5:00pm
FREE admission, small fee for children’s games
233 W. Main Street
260-427-6460
www.fortwayneparks.org- Embassy Theatre
The Phantom of the Opera featuring Dennis James on the Grande Page Organ!
This 1925 black and white starred Lon Chaney in the title role as the deformed Phantom who haunts the Paris Opera House, causing murder and mayhem in an attempt to force the management to make the woman he loves a star!
7:00pm
$8 for adults, $5 for students
125 W. Jefferson Blvd.
260-424-5665
www.fwembassytheatre.org- Embassy Theatre
Embassy Tunnel Tours
Fort Wayne Shadow Chasers enthralls patrons during a tour of the belly of the Embassy with haunted tales about the resident ghost and other frightful historic legends.
4:30-6:30pm and 7:30-10pm, tours run every 10 minutes.
$5 per person
125 W. Jefferson Blvd.
260-424-5665
www.fwembassytheatre.org- Embassy Theatre
Spooky Stories
Sit for a spell in the Indiana Hotel Lobby and listen to spooky stories.
6:00-8:00pm
FREE
Indiana Hotel Lobby 125 W. Jefferson Blvd.
260-424-5665
www.fwembassytheatre.org
- Embassy Theatre
Indiana Paranormal Inquisitor’s Hunt for the Embassy Ghost
This special offering for ghost-hunt enthusiasts is a rare opportunity to spend the night at the Embassy Theatre.
11:00pm-4:00am
$60, includes ghost hunt and T-shirt. Reservations through the Embassy box office.
125 W. Jefferson Blvd.
260-424-5665
www.fwembassytheatre.org- ARCH, Inc
?Murder, Mystery & Mayhem: Historic Tales of Fort Wayne’s Nefarious Past? walking tours
This tour is not another ghost tour. During this tour we will tell you the true dark history of Fort Wayne from disastrous building collapses to hangings and bloody battles. This tour may not be suitable for all ages, however, all ages are welcome.
6-10pm, tours will go out every hour on the hour
$10.00/Adults, $5.00/ 6-17yrs, and free for kids 5 & under
Indiana Hotel Lobby
260-426-5117
www.archfw.org- ARCH, Inc
ARCH Haunted Sites Bus Tours
3 spooky bus tours whisk you away to historic sites full of frightening delight. Join us as we embark on tales of terror that cloud our city’s past. Seats on
the bus are limited, so get your tickets before they are sold out!
6-10pm, tours depart 6pm, 8pm and 10pm
$15.00/Adults, $10.00/5-17yrs
Indiana Hotel Lobby
Purchase tickets beginning September 20th by calling 260-426-5117 or going online at www.archfw.org.- Car Show Spooktacular
Check out all of the spooky rides cruisin’ in at Cindy’s Diner and enjoy Trunk of Treat, tunes from DJ Fast Eddie and lots of contests brought to you by Kroozin Calendar!
5:00-8:00pm
830 South Harrison Street (Cindy’s Diner)
Call 260-273-1447 for detail and to cruise in!- American Red Cross
Blood Drive
They want your blood! Stop down while you’re downtown and donate. All donors will receive a Haunted Cave or Haunted Castle ticket! 2:00-5:00pm
900 Library Plaza
260-466-4027
www.redcross.org- YLNI Barr Street Market
Fall Festival The Barr Street Market will be back for a one day fall market including fresh and unique local produce, plants, meats, baked goods and homemade crafts! 2:00-5:00pm
302 East Berry Street
https://www.ylni.org/events/barr-street-market- African/African American Museum
Warfield’s Haunted Museum House of Mystery
The museum will be transformed into a haunted house that draws on African and African American ghost stories and actual historical figures with a recreation of Jordan Crossing’s tombstones, from the historic African American section of Lindenwood Cemetery.
6:00-9:00pm, Admission $2
436 E. Douglas Avenue
https://www.myblackinfo.com/african_americanfw.htm- A Better Fort’s Zombie Prom
EDM Monster Mashups by iFriday! Proceeds benefitting the Fort Wayne chapter of Foundation Fighting Blindness
$5 cover after 10:00pm, $5 pitchers of “Blood” Lite, $3 Zombie Bombs
8:00pm-2:00am
The Thirsty Camel
120 W. Washington Blvd.- Fort Wayne Dance Collective
Into the Dark(ness)
Fort Wayne Dance Collective presents its fifth annual Halloween concert, Into the Dark(ness). A dance concert to chill your bones.
7:00-9:00pm
Tickets will be available for purchase in the near future from the Artstix Community box office at 260-422-4226, $15 adult, $12 students 12 and under
Arts United Center
300 E. Main St.
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